That's what a lot of players I know do (quitting), which is bad for Entropia in the long run. MA is effectively erased years of hard work for many players, that doesn’t really inspire confidence, especially considering their history...
The consequences of exploits left to run for years? Is this the payoff? I see a lot of changes in the game, all of which take into account both what the players said and what MA thinks is best to save the game.
What hard work exactly is erased? Im not blind, i see that MA made some mistakes, most of it fixable. But erasing all the hard work? Would not go that far.
I vote no! (I think)
So you can't start a job because some people sit on large bank accounts? That doesn't make sense. Your direct competitor is yourself and your ability to push forward, not anyone's bank account / PED card.The point is that there are some unaddressed issues that will keep a lot of people from doing Mayhem.
Again, there is a surplus of Mayhem Tokens caused by Resource Mayhem. Why should people do Mayhem now, with reduced token drops - When people are sitting on piles of tokens from RM 1 and RM 2? I mean sure, you can launch the event - but the turn-out is going to be at an all-time low. If you call that "adapt", fine.
Secondly - People in both normal Mayhems and RM are sitting on a lot of tokens they invested in to acquire - And now it seems that the vendor will be stocked exclusively with (L) items and (L) BPs
So you can't start a job because some people sit on large bank accounts? That doesn't make sense. Your direct competitor is yourself and your ability to push forward, not anyone's bank account / PED card.
With your argument no one would ever have a reason to start this game, because someone is almost level 700.
When I start collecting MTokens, there were people that aleady made 3-4 pulls selling for crazy amount of money and I was counting 5 + 1 = 6, + 1 = 7 and I was happy I could also collect some tokens with my small weapon, thinking I'm never going to get anything, but maybe... maybe one of those smallest ones could slip into my hands, event after event, I made 4 big pulls and I plan to make more. Suit yourself and stand away if what others achieved upsets you so much, more for the active entropians
They already decided to go bold with these changes. When there was massive hp xploiting in lootables with pyrite ore, MA removed the incentive of players to do that without punishing the players. Today (actually they said they will do it on Feb 25th) they make the same thing, correct a severe issue, that of macroing, by adding active gameplay into equastion which is great especially for new and medium players, they have a chance of progressing while the big players will not progress as fast, many will quit mayhems because of having to manually play it now... so your direct competition will be say other 10 active players, instead of other 50 macro users and that is huge for the game. We already have too many that "park" their avatars even in public spawns when they go to bed.That is a great attitude
Im just trying to formulate into words why there is a large drop of activity/participation, so that maybe something can be done by MA to turn things around.
Was there an actual question? If there was then it's kind of simple. If i find that starting Easter Mayhem does not fit my needs i will not participate. If it does, i will participate. Simple choice for every player here. Let MA worry about lows or highs.
I get where you're coming from, but when MA makes drastic changes, it often feels like years of effort and investment are undermined. That can (and does) leave players with little to show for their time and money spent. Sure, some mistakes can be fixed, but for many, it feels like progress is constantly reset, which can be discouraging. I’m all for adaptation, but it’s hard to stay motivated when it seems like the rug could be pulled out from under you at any moment.
these are all valid arguments, however this was before mindark started hijacking vendor prices and creating other events that gave the in comparisnj costly earned original mtokens drop in value even further - you cant tell people to put trust in mindark and work for a future reward while mindark in a single year halfed their item values and quartered their token savings - there is no reasonable argument to motivate a player to put a years effort into something when mindark at the same time takes 3 years worth of effort away through inflation/devalueation. sure in such times there will always be those who seek opportunity and trying to get an edge over those who give up and these opportunities exist especially in a game of relative competition but to even think for a second that on a limited vendor stock those able to collect 2k mtokens stand a remote chance to save something up while many other players sit on token piles of several hundred k is just tricking oneself - before the tokens aquired in the new type of mayhem add up to anything the vendor will be emptied many times over by players who already have tokens from rm.So you can't start a job because some people sit on large bank accounts? That doesn't make sense. Your direct competitor is yourself and your ability to push forward, not anyone's bank account / PED card.
With your argument no one would ever have a reason to start this game, because someone is almost level 700.
When I start collecting MTokens, there were people that aleady made 3-4 pulls selling for crazy amount of money and I was counting 5 + 1 = 6, + 1 = 7 and I was happy I could also collect some tokens with my small weapon, thinking I'm never going to get anything, but maybe... maybe one of those smallest ones could slip into my hands, event after event, I made 4 big pulls and I plan to make more. Suit yourself and stand away if what others achieved upsets you so much, more for the active entropians
How does that make sense when a lot of people already pulled from vendor with tokens farmed in RM? Take away their items? They can't retroactively repurpose those tokens because a small minority of players chose not to participate in that format. Same as those that have tokens made 5 years ago, the hard competitive way, they cannot ask to remove the tokens that were poured in the game via farming the annihilation, just because they did not accept the format... it doesn't make any sense. Whoever is sitting on whatever they bought, it's their thing, can't take it away just because you don't have a similar pile...
(worked in 3 shifts sometimes 8 days a week)You can try first few stages at defence mayhem. These are easy to do and rewards are not that bad on defensive mayhem.
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there is no taking away when you get the tokens earned from an event to be used for a vendor from that event while being able to pull items from both events copied to both vendors. besides im pretty sure that the number of players who harvested hundreds of k of mtokens from rm are only one or 2 dozend while the players who got their original mtokens devalued are thousands - a retroactive split will restore the value of old mtokens without taking anything away from those who did rm therefor giving incentive to work towards future pulls for the playerbase as a whole.
You chose to drill the bots, you always choose those over any mayhem, resource mayhem, migra and what not, it's not other ppl's fault you chose not to participate in active content and RM was ighly active, had to do a lot of stuff, mine, craft, hunt, interact with people, chase shops and whatnot. A lot of people only did one of those activities, liek mined a lot and used minerals for RM, why are they to retroactively anything???
i have done rm though not repeatedly because i was convinced that it was totally unblanced giving the same rewards then regular mayhem and i told mindark respectively, i have done every hunting mayhem extensively for a few years now - yes i do drillbots for robot looter skilling but for you to claim that i do them instead of mayhem is totally wrong. i have done all the game content out there including spina queen, ,rdi, have access to all areas
they did say no more tokens in loot unless that has changed i dont see how dailies could make up for this unless they increased their reward tenfold
